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Dr. Azzam Alwash is the Director of the Eden Again Project. Born in Kut, Iraq in 1958, he spent much of his younger years in Nasseriya on the fringes of the marshlands. His father Mr. Jawad Alwash was the district irrigation engineer, and Azzam used to accompany him on trips into the marshlands to resolve water disputes. He left Iraq in 1978 as a result of the Baathist regime. He completed his Bachelor of Science (Civil Engineering) at California State University at Fullerton, and his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Subsequently, he worked for 20 years as a soils engineering consultant in southern California. In 1997, he became active in Iraqi expatriate politics. He is on the Board of Directors of the Iraq Foundation and the Iraqi Forum for Democracy. In August 2003, Azzam took a leave of absence from his consultancy practice to direct the Eden Again operations in Iraq. He now lives permanently in Iraq, dividing his time between Baghdad, the marshlands, and international speaking engagements. Watch this website for updates from him.

Ms. Rend al-Rahim is the Executive Director of the Iraq Foundation’s Eden Again Project. Ms. Rahim is a native of Iraq. She is a founder of the Iraq Foundation and was its Executive Director from 1991 to 2003. In 2004, Iraq’s Governing Council named her as Iraq’s representative to the United States, and she is on leave of absence from the Iraq Foundation to assume her ambassadorial duties.
Ms. Rahim has done extensive research on Iraq, and her op-ed articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Boston Globe. Ms. Rahim has testified on Iraq in the U.S. Congress and has participated as an analyst on Iraqi issues on national television and radio programs. She co-authored The Arab Shi'a: Forgotten Muslims, published by St. Martin's Press in 2000. Ms. Rahim holds degrees from Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.

Dr. Suzie Alwash served as the Director of the Eden Again Project from July 2002-July 2003, at which point she switched roles with Azzam to become the Senior Project Advisor. Dr. Suzie Alwash has a PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California and is a Professor of Earth Sciences at El Camino College in Torrance, California. Prior to this position, she was a Principal Hydrogeologist with the international consulting firm Arcadis where she specialized in remediation of environmental contamination in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater aquatic environments. Her current responsibilities for the Eden Again Project include project planning and technical review of documents. Dr. Suzie Alwash oversees Eden Again's global outreach program, including this website, the Eden Again newsletters, and media communications

	Azzam Jawad Alwash Project Director Ph.D. Civil Engineering
	Ambassador Rend al-Rahim Executive Director
	Dr. Suzie Alwash Senior Technical Advisor Ph.D. Geological Sciences
	Maan al-Jadir Office Manager B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
	Saif Fawzi Abbas Research Associate B.Sc. Environmental Engineering
	Ghassaq Sabah Abdul-Reda Research Associate B.Sc. Biological Sciences
	Waleed Habeeb Research Assistant B.Sc. Environmental Engineering
	Abbas Jawad Kadhim Research Associate B.Sc. Environmental Engineering
	Mahmood B. Mahmood Research Assistant B.Sc. Biology
	Aseel Salam Qaiser Research Associate B.Sc. Biology
	Sama Samir Rashad Research Assistant B.Sc. Biology
	Mudhafer A. Salim Research Associate, Ornithologist
	Mohammed A. Taqi Research Associate B.Sc. Biology
	Hind al-Kattan Accountant
	Zaid Uday Omar Logistician
	Yasser Uday Omar Assistant
	Anna Bachmann Operational Manager, Jordan Office